By "something" do you mean Ruby itself, or the fact that most Ruby implemenations are slow? If it was the former, then I think you're responding to the wrong s

By "something" do you mean Ruby itself, or the fact that most Ruby implemenations are slow? If it was the former, then I think you're responding to the wrong statement. The statement was about "5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use". So it wasn't about disliking Ruby itself, but rather things about Ruby. If you were indeed saying that you don't care enough about the fact that "most implementations of Ruby are relatively slow." to raise that fact to the level of "dislike", well, I guess I find that hard to believe. I mean, sure, it generally won't matter. But even if it only matters a small portion of the time, what is there to "like" about implementations of a language being slow? Wouldn't you always dislike that fact, even when it didn't particularly matter in most cases?